#zeiram 2

[seatopian]

i am once again begging for more tokusatsu movies and shows that feel like these.

(don’t mention GARO. i tried GARO. it doesn’t feel like these.)

[chernobog13]

The lovely Yūko Moriyama as bounty hunter Iria in Zeiram 2 (1994).

[wojit]

This is the second-best villains introduction in Zeiram 2. I'd recommend watching it for the first-best.

[trulyunpleasant]

Zeiram II

[savvywav3]

Original character design i liked from the movie "Zeiram 2" by masakazukatsura.

[ohotnig]

Quick call for commissions! 2 slots available. 11.7 x 16.5 (A3), black and white/spot color, €300 euro basic price or €250 if it's something from this list of subjects below. Shipping of the original to you included!

Comics: Venom/Carnage/New Gods#7/Dai Dark/Dorohedoro/Hellboy Troll Witch/Wild Hunt/Crooked Man/Bride of Hell Movies: Ichi the Killer/Possession/Fires on the Plain/Hard to be A God Games: Legacy of Kain/Final Fantasy 9 Tokusatsu: Shin Ultraman/Zeiram/Guyver/Godzilla Singular Point

The commissions will be done during this Autumn. E-mail me at artyomtrakhanov[a]gmail.com to discuss it!

[cipheramnesia]

I really support Zeiram 2 and his transition into a buff, big-titty, goth, he/him lesbian batgirl.

[animenostalgia]

News - Masakazu Katsura's debut manga, 1983's Wingman, will be getting a new live-action TV series! The series will begin in Japan in October of 2024 to celebrate the original series' 40th anniversary. Toei also made an anime of Wingman that ran from 1984-1985. Katsura is best known in the US for his later works, such as Video Girl Ai, DNA^2, and Shadow Lady. He also did character designs for Iria - Zeiram: The Animation, Tiger & Bunny, and the video game Astral Chain.

[boxheadpaint]

god everyone should watch zeiram. AND zeiram 2

[tickfleato]

everyone watch zeiram 2 right now

[toldentops]

i just watched zeiram and zeiram 2 last night. fucking awesome. iria is so cool. Zeiram is so hot

[seatopian]

loving what i've seen of King-Ohger and Blazar so far but i need to watch more 70's to 90's toku, as it's my favorite. from Space Sheriff Gavan to Zeiram 1/2 (really any Keita Amemiya work pre-Garo) to even as far back as Kamen Rider '71, i love that style of toku. anyone got any recommendations?

[bowelfly]

while i usually keep this blog focused on art and bugs, movies are my third big passion, and since i don't believe in streaming services i don't have a spotify wrapped for 2022 to show off but i do have a letterboxd account so i felt like going through my 2022 movie watching stats. this post is basically for me alone and will be obnoxiously long so i'll put in a read more thing here out of courtesy:

ooh so close to almost 1000 hours of movies! still 718 films is pretty good, though that does also include around 80 or so shorts, mostly animations, that i also logged.

i was averaging around 2 movies per day for the year. being 500 miles away from all your friends, family, and partner does give you a lot of free time it turns out. the most movies i watched in a single week, december 10-16, was 28. the weeks i only watched a couple things were either when i was visiting my partner or too depressed to even watch movies

one of the things i've done this year to keep myself sane in isolation was to stream movies for friends. however since i have multiple non-overlapping friend groups, there were a number of movies i watched multiple times because i have a deep psychological and emotional need to share weird shit with the people i care about. NOVA SEED, FANTASY MISSION FORCE, and BUDDHA'S PALM were the triple crown winners this year.

i only watched 7 movies that came out in 2022. my sweet spot is genre movies made from the late 70s through the mid-90s which you can see clearly if you look at my lifetime stats. predictably, i have very strong opinions about practical effects and stunts and film stock

my ratings spread for 2022 is about what it normally is for other years with a lot of things ending up in the 3.5-4 star range. maybe i'm just generous with my stars or maybe i just like what i like and try to not watch things i won't like unless they're bad in a fun way but i really feel like i've been moving away from the whole so-bad-its-good thing over the years and focusing on things that i unironically like--though these are often films that other people do categorize as bad or so-bad-its-good.

my most watched actors is a bunch of golden age hong kong dudes because i went super hard on the kung fu and wuxia films this year. like about half of these are big name stars and the other half are less well-known character actors that still are in like 200 movies playing assorted emperors and evil administrators. really glad to see my main man lo lieh running away with first place. he's most well known for playing evil white-haired kung fu masters usually named pai mei or variations of that, but he's also played the protagonist or antihero of a number of great films like FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH or THE FUGITIVE (1972, not the harrison ford one). my favorite role of his is without question Bi Gu of East Island the rascally kung fu wizard who hollers his name from offscreen before every time he enters a scene in BUDDHA'S PALM (1982).

also very pleased to see one of my favorite american character actors, brion james squeaking his way onto the list, though sad that he got separated from his best friend and frequent collaborator tim thomerson, who i think is just below the cut here.

most watched directors. i've been a huge fan of the very recently deceased albert pyun for years now, largely on the strength of his absolute god-tier masterpiece NEMESIS (1992) though he has a number of other very entertaining movies (RADIOACTIVE DREAMS, CYBORG) and also a cavalcade of very bad movies that are nonetheless all fascinating in their own ways. i could go on about him at length but this post is long enough. maybe another time.

other than that, chor yuen (THE MAGIC BLADE, DESCENDANT OF THE SUN) and chang cheh (CRIPPLED AVENGERS, FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS) are gods of early wuxia cinema and fucking rule, and keita amemiya's 90s work (ZEIRAM, MECHANICAL VIOLATOR HAKAIDER, CYBER NINJA) are pinnacles of kickass japanese practical effects work.

i also watched a lot of russ meyer and john waters films because i'm a pevert.

this is mostly just a reminder to check out my WUXIA WIZARD WARS tumblr post and letterboxd list if you like movies about wizards shooting lasers at each other and summoning fucked up monsters and shit like that

finally, because i have a brain disease, i made a list of the 100 best films i watched this year, mostly first-time watches but probably like 15-20 rewatches that i especially enjoyed or think more people should know about or give another shot. if i didn't already have way too many projects i'd consider setting up another sideblog just going through all these one by one with reviews and screenshots but that's a lot of work and i am a tired old man. i might give an occasional highlight post like i did for THE BARON AGAINST THE DEMONS

and i guess that's about it? this has been an especially heavy year for golden age hong kong kung fu and wuxia films but i explored a lot of other interesting places and times and genres and microgenres and have a lot more i plan on checking out next year. i've got stacks and stacks of unwatched japanese V-cinema and pinku violence and kaiju and tokusatsu films; tons of giallo and hammer horror and eurotrash lesbian vampire flicks; classic westerns, revisionist westerns, spaghetti westerns; SOV horror, eastern european stop motion, hong kong CAT III sleaze, russian postapocalyptic dirges, poliziotteschi, krimi, and noir films; AIP and PM Entertainment action schlock; italian mad max ripoffs, italian alien ripoffs, italian conan ripoffs; approximately 300 movies with NINJA, BLOOD, or SHAOLIN in their titles; and probably some other shit too.

finally, if you've made it this far and you're a nasty little film freak like me i'll let you in on a secret: i have copies of every single one of these movies on my hard drive. literally thousands of movies dug out of dozens of digital dumpsters with my own two greasy grabby raccoon paws. if any of them particularly catch your interest but you can't find a copy, well you can maybe slip old professor bfly a little private request and get yourself a copy of whatever you need. it may take some time since i only have so many google drive accounts unless someone wants to subsidize a deluxe mega.nz subscription for me to mass-upload things to. i also have a soulseek account sharing the entire hoard but it's very slow and not always online but you can DM me for that as well. again though you may have to be patient because i am old and tired and slow and have a full time job and a hundred dumb hobbies and social anxiety and generalized brain damage

happy new year everyone now go watch a movie about some dudes kicking the shit out of each other for me

[ridley-was-a-cat]

What I Watched This Week – 2/25 – 3/2

Magical Girl Ore – All this time, I’ve had the wrong idea about this show. I thought it was about a guy becoming a magical girl, and not about a girl becoming a magical girl in world where they transform into a muscular guy in a magical girl costume courtesy of a fairy who looks like a yakuza. To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with the idea behind the former, but it is infinitely less tailor-made for me than the latter. I will concede that the art and animation never really rise above average, the story really only works as a parody, and the humor definitely borders on various flavors of queerphobia. However, if you’re in the mood for a comedy that has fun with magical girl and idol anime tropes, a generous helping of yaoi and yuri bait, and muscular men in dresses voiced by actors like Kenjiro Tsuda and Kaito Ishikawa, this is a very fun ride. 7/10

Iria: Zeiram The Animation – Sometimes I really miss the 90s sci-fi OVA. Netflix is doing a bit of that sort of thing, but there’s just something about a six-episode sci-fi like this one, with the beautiful painted backgrounds and cel animation that just feels special to me. The story follows a young hunter named Iria who follows her brother out on a job to rescue the crew of a hijacked space ship, and discovers it’s been taken over by an immortal being who killed most of the crew and half of the hunter party. I really enjoyed the way the story gave out details about the world via character interactions, like people remarking on the way the main character wore beads in her hair like a man, rather than dumping it all in one go in a monologue or something. It’s not an animation showcase, and it’s not particularly thought-provoking, but it’s a solid sci-fi adventure. 7/10

Pop Team Epic – I’m not really sure what to say about this rapid-fire, absurd gag comedy, but I had fun watching it. Each episode is in two parts: The first half is a series of quick skits featuring the two main characters and a variety of one-off characters in absurd situations, then the second half repeats all the same skits with different voice actors. Every episode has a completely different crop of voice actors, leading to a comically long list of voice actors for the main characters on MAL. Most skits were at least vaguely amusing, with a few being laugh-out-loud funny, and some voice actors understood the assignment better than others. Some of the better contributors included Norio Wakamoto, Mami Koyama, and Sugita and Nakamura together in the same episode. Definitely worth checking out if you like your comedy a little weird. 7/10

[xolta]

Scifi recommendations

Xolta's Scifi movie recommendation list.

Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) The Astronomer's Dream Tetsuo: The Iron Man Under the Seas Zeiram Aelita Termiantor Terminator 2 The First Men in the Moon(1918 version) L'Inhumaine The Mysterious Island(1929) A Boy and His Dog Total recall(original) Dune(1980s, I know its bad but i like it okay) Dune part 1 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind(idk if it counts) Flash Gordon(1980s movie) The H-Man The Angry Red Planet The Stepford Wives(original) First Men in the Moon(1964 version) Barbarella They Live Demon Seed Altered States Dark city The 13th floor Virus(1980s Japaneses movie) Virus(1990s American movie) Starship Troopers Alien Aliens Robocop Robocop 2 Titan A.E. Ghost in the shell(original anime version) Howard the duck(its not bad fight me!) Escape from New York Blade runner E.t. Space balls Jurassic park The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Gandahar Star trek: Generations Star trek: First Contact Heavy metal(mainly for its soundtrack) The Super Inframan Planet of the apes(original) Galaxy quest Rise of the planet of the apes Dawn of the planet of the apes Star wars Big man japan return of the jedi the empire strikes back Star trek 2: Wrath of khan Mad max District 9 Road warrior Mad max beyond thunder dome The Secret of NIMH(it counts right?) Videodrome Paprika Krull(dose it count idk) M.D. Geist Star Trek 4: The voyage home Naked lunch Star trek the undiscovered country The City of Lost Children The Island of Dr. Moreau(the 90s supreme trash fire version) Event Horizon eXistenZ Children of men

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[btrinidad01]

Iria: Zeiram the Animation (イ・リ・ア ゼイラム ジ アニメーション) Laserdisc Volumes 2-6 . . Brought these last year as a set, unfortunately missing vol.1 so I’ll have to be on the lookout for that! Really cool to get these, absolutely love the inserts/poster art by Masakazu Katsura and Keita Amemiya! Definitely checkout the anime if you haven’t seen it before! #IriaZeiramtheAnimation #イリアゼイラム ジ アニメーション #Iria #イリア #MasakazuKatsura #桂正和 #KeitaAmemiya #雨宮慶太 #TetsurōAmino #アミノテツロー Anime #Manga #90sanime #retroanime #laserdisc #animefan #animeposter https://www.instagram.com/p/CqNCAFxO-U8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=